Fantasy Nes

[Gladinia]

The year is 8 AM*. It is the dawn of Magecraft and Civilization as we will know it. Sorceresses and wizards and magi in all lands are at last beginning to harness the untold power of magic, but even the greatest of the diviners, necromancers and oracles cannot see the future...

In this NES you will not have standard armies such as spearmen or archers. You will have different sorts of mages such as 30 Wind mages, 20 Mana mages, 10 Chaos mages, and a secondary part of the army, the allies called by the mages. Battles will depend heavily on you writing tactics, and a little bit upon terrain, use of terrain ie. I will do most of the casualties, wins, surrenderers etc.

Instead of trade routes, you can build magic gateways into the other land. It is not advised to make war on the people that you have a gateway to.
Gateways are not easily destroyed

When you want to expand, tell me, and i will edit it into a map. Expansion rates differ from time to time.

Economy is replaced by Country Mana. This represents the amount of tappable mana in your holdings. This affects the amount of mages you can recruit, and how they do in battle. Country Mana will be replenished after time, but usually your mages will use it faster than it replenishes. It will grow when you expand into new lands. It will grow by a lot with certain random events that I will deal out.
Mage recruitment per turn is maximum of 5 for 1 Country mana. Your country mana does not get drained!
You can build mage schools for mages, or you may recruit some types of mages from the countryside, or just wait for them to turn up by paying mages well in your army. Mages are very greedy.


You can of course build cities, roads, wonders etc. It's up to you.


Here is a short list of mage types. Feel free to invent some yourselves, but please make them realistic. If they are too unrealistic, I can veto them.

Fire
Water
Earth
Wind
Mana
Life
Chaos
Nature
Meta
Divination
Conveyance
Summoning
Illusion
Animal
Death

You can combine several of these, for example: Fire+Wind+Animal+Nature=Summons Dragons
or: Conveyance+Death+Summoning=Portal to the netherworld. Summons undead.

The army will be in two parts; the mages and the things they summon, make etc.



*8 After Magic.

 

[Gladinia]

Starting map.

As you expand, you may say things like "At the foothills of the Quagazar Mountains..." and invent rivers and mountains etc.

Extra Bonus: I'll give 5 free mages of any type to the person that can guess where I got this map from, and 1 Country mana to whoever can guess wich parts I used (More than one or two out of a total of 4 or 5. If you guess 4 lands, you get 2 Country mana, maybe three.)

 

[Gladinia]

Nation Template:

Country Mana:2
Civfanatics name:
Colour:
Country:
Ruler:
Government: Monarchy/Magerule/Oligarchy
Age:Early AM
Army: 30 ?? Mages (may be split)
Wonders:

Also write where you want to start.

Orders:
Try not to do too much on a turn. (If you write a good story, of course, you might be excused of course) I might not do everything in the update, so write top-priority things first.

Post now.

 

[human-slaughter]

its jasons map and i see central america and madagascar and two others but ill let someone else guess it

 

[Gladinia]

Good.
Do you want the two Country mana or the 5 mages...
There was kind of a point to this competition; the bonuses to players...


Nation list:

Country Mana:3
Civfanatics name: human-slaughter
Colour: red
Country: Valenadara
Ruler: Concilman Valen
Government: Magerule
Age:Early AM
Army: 35 Mages (10 Fire+summoning, 20 Chaos, 5 animal+fire 5 pure fire)
Wonders: The pits of Thracken (Summon two Fire Golems per turn, start with four. Turn 3 of 5)
Current summonings:0
Summoned Creatures:

Country Mana: 3
Civfanatics name: Global Nexus
Colour: Neon Pink
Country: Aurania
Ruler: Queen Genneka Rueben
Government: Monarchy
Age: Early AM
Army: (10 Fire, 10 Earth, 15 Wind, 5 Death, 5 Chaos, 5 Ice)
Wonders:0
Current summonings: Wind Demon (Turn 1 of 2)
Summoned Creatures:

Country Mana:3
Civfanatics name:Amon Savag
Colour:Red
Country:Geystral
Ruler:Amon Savag
Government: Monarchy
Age:Early AM
Army: 35 Death Mages,10 Fire Mages
Wonders:Sacrificing Pit to Nerul (+3 CM) (3/4 turns)
Current summonings:0
Summoned Creatures:

Country Mana:3
Civfanatics name: Erik Mesoy
Colour: Dark Blue
Country: Wesseria
Ruler: Lord Erik
Government: Monarchy
Age: Early AM
Army: 7chaos, 4nature, 15geo, 5special, 5pattern+water, 10 Fire, 5 Earth, 5 Death
Wonders: The Infinity Corridor (turn 2 of 3)
Current summonings:
Summoned Creatures:1(A cloud Dragon.)

Country Mana:3
Civfanatics name: DisruptiveIdiot
Colour: Grey
Country: Feragore
Ruler: Zast
Government: Monarchy
Age:Early AM
Army: 20 Life Mages, 20 Death Mages, 5 Nature
Wonders:0
Current summonings:0
Summoned Creatures:

Country Mana:3
Civfanatics name: Emu
Colour: Blue
Country: Brotherhood
Ruler: Emu
Government: Monarchy
Age:Early AM
Army: 30 Mages ( 10 Death, 10 Fire, 10 Chaos, 10 Life )
Wonders: Slave pits (3/7 turns)
Current summonings:0
Summoned Creatures:1 Fire Daemon

Country Mana:4
Civfanatics name: erez87
Colour: very dark gray
Country: Karkaz
Ruler: Lord Shfihrer
Government: Total Lord control
Age:Early AM
Army: 30 Death Mages, 20 Chaos Mages, 500 assorted undead(Skeletons, Zombies, etc.)
Wonders:0
Current summonings:0
Summoned Creatures:

Country Mana:3
Civfanatics name: Heine
Colour: Green
Country: The Black Mages
Ruler: Black Mage Hagfyldur
Government: Despotism
Age:Early AM
Army: 15 Death Mages, 10 Conveyance+Death+Summoning, 5 Earth+Illusion, 5 Fire, 5 Death+Fire (Hellfire?)
Wonders:
Start: The lake near the Vulcano

 

[human-slaughter]

ill take the mages

Country Mana:2
Civfanatics name: human-slaughter
Colour: red
Country: Valenadara Id like to start in a mountainouse area. near the base of the volcano Valendara
Ruler: Concilman Valen
Government: Magerule (can you please explain the gov.)
Age:Early AM
Army: 35 Mages (10 Fire+summoning, 20 Chaos, 5 animal+fire)
Wonders:

 

[Gladinia]

<spam>
Great!!! Good luck.
</spam>
Shall I just place you somwhere random, or will you point out to me where on the map Valenadara, the mountainous area at the base of the Volcano Valendara is?
The government doesn't really do much, exept give you reasons to, for example, attack other people with different govenments.

Magerule is a type of government where a council of mages meet every month (or something) and talk. There is one head mage, three secondary mages, and five thirdmages. The council is made out of these, and three normal mages that have remarked themselves in battle(twelve alltogether.) The head mage has a veto and two votes, the three secondary mages have 1 vote each, the five thirdmages have one vote each to, but they are rotated each year, while the others serve for for life. The three battlemages have one vote each.

 

[Global Nexus]

Country Mana: 2
Civfanatics name: Global Nexus
Colour: Neon Pink
Country: Aurania
Ruler: Queen Genneka Rueben
Government: Monarchy
Age: Early AM
Army: 30 Mages (5 Fire, 10 Earth, 15 Wind)
Wonders:

This works, I hope. Please place me at a random location in the Eastern half of the map. Along a river [which would be called simply the River Origina], if you can do so. ^^;

 

[Gladinia]

Great u to!!
I'll update tomorrow or so. I live in Norway so I'm on a different time, but it should work.

 

[human-slaughter]

ill start in the middle of what wold be the yucatan peninsula

 

[erez87]

Well duh, it's Australia, and Panama, and there is southern island of New-Zealand, Tasmania in full, Madagascar backward and that lake is from africa, And let's not forget Baja? from mexico and those 3 islands are Galapagus, huge turtles in there and the last dinazours

 

[Amon Savag]

Country Mana:2
Civfanatics name:Amon Savag
Colour:Red
Country:Geystral
Ruler:Amon Savag
Government: Monarchy
Age:Early AM
Army: 20 Death Mages,10 Fire Mages
Wonders:Sacrificing Pit to Nerul (+3 CM)

 

[Amon Savag]

And start me out on New Zealand

 

[Gladinia]

@Erez: Good... Did you see what I wrote earlier?

Originally posted by Gladinia
Good.
Do you want the two Country mana or the 5 mages...
There was kind of a point to this competition; the bonuses to players...

Are you going to join, or just be stupid???

 

[Death]

Edit

 

[Erik Mesoy]

I'd like to join as Lord Erik of the kingdom of Wesseria (Monarchy). Starting near the pointy peninsula place (Horn of Africa).

Country Mana:2
Civfanatics name: Erik Mesoy
Colour: Dark Blue
Country: Wesseria
Ruler: Lord Erik
Government: Monarchy
Age: Early AM
Army: 4chaos/ 4nature/ 12geo/ 5special/ 5pattern/water
Wonders: None yet.

Geography: The river Laedwath spilts, flows on both sides of a volcano, and converges again- in this three-way junction is set the home of the Mages of Wesseria.

The Mages of Wesseria:
The kingdom is kept flourishing by means of the 4 chaos and 4 nature mages who constantly travel the kingdom, first tapping chaos for their power, then making the plants grow, then channeling controlled chaos into them for good mutations, i.e. bigger plants, such as potatoes.
The main army is 12 Geomancer mages. Geomancers are mages of the four elements, not as skilled at creating or abusing them as mainstream mages but rather more at drawing on them. E.g. if there is a river nearby their water magic will be stronger. A metal deposit will make it easier for them to call minor earthquakes et al.

Then there's the commando team. This is to consist of 1 Air, 1 Conveyance, 1 Death, 1 Summoning, and 1 Divination mage.

The 5 last are 5 Water/Pattern mages. Pattern is the essence of Order and the prime opposite of Chaos. It strengthens spells but restricts them. These mages are very good at creating ice and editing temperatures.

Turn 1 orders: Recruit 4 Fire, 10 Earth and 6 Geomancer mages.
Start the summoning of a undead-dragon-ghost-cloud-transport-thingy for the commando team. (done by the Summoning, Water, Air, Death and Conveyance mages.) It can't attack. It's the magical equivalent of an invisible silent helicopter.
Expand to the west.

 

[Erik Mesoy]

So when can we get an update? Are we going to expand quickly? I want to get into a war with somebody soon.

 

[Gladinia]

@Erik: Please don't spam.
Update will come as soon as I have orders from everybody.
Orders people!

 

[DisruptiveIdiot]

Country Mana:2
Civfanatics name: DisruptiveIdiot
Colour: Grey
Country: Feragore
Ruler: Zast
Government: Monarchy
Age:Early AM
Army: 15 Life Mages 15 Death Mages
Wonders:

Ill get my orders in when I find out what the mages do when combined ;D

Orders :

Expand in all directions.
Figure out what life + death equals.

 

[Gladinia]

Great DisruptiveIdiot!
Update coming up now. Get your orders in quick